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Firstly, I'd like to send good wishes to any of my flisters who have been affected by Hurricane Sandy (which, incidentally, was the size of my entire country!), and I hope that you and yours have all kept safe and sound. May the clean-up and everything associated with it happen quickly and without too many issues. *hugs* and I send you as many good vibes as it takes.

Secondly, I apologise for not replying to all your great comments about what sets you crying (on TV/movie screens mostly) but it's been a slightly crazy couple of days for one reason or another and I haven't had time to devote to decent replies yet. Hopefully I'll get my A into G tonight.

Thirdly and finally, today marks the start of my second Photo Project for 2012; a little something I'm doing with my daughters. I'm not sure yet what our assignment is for today, but I have my camera on hand and as soon as N1D lets me know what we're taking pictures of, I'll be off and running. It goes for 30 days, hence beginning it on the First of November (it's here already!) and if you'd like to see the results, let me know here and I'll include you in the filter. If you were in it last time, you're automatically in it again, so if you want out, you can let me know too! ;-)

This morning's 7.1 scale earthquake in Christchurch is a long way from where I live and we are not affected.

Thankfully, no one has been killed, although there are a number of injuries. Apparently water and power are the main concerns for the residents there, and they hope to have power restored to places where it's out by 6pm tonight. Water may be a different issue and people are being urged to conserve it where they can. For the rest of things, there is a lot of structural damage in Christchurch and surrounding places (the quake was felt as far away as Invercargill in the south and Taranaki in the north), but the agencies who deal with such things appear to have most issues under control. It's very lucky that Christchurch doesn't have a lot of tall buildings, although there are certainly a lot of historic places that I hope haven't sustained too much damage.

My family's thoughts and wishes go out to anyone who's been affected by this, and we will certainly be offering any help that we can.